IMDb writer Jon Hopwood penned a very honest and thoughtful biography for Kim Kardashian that analyzes the reality star's and her family's improbable rise to mainstream fame and incredible fortune based solely on a homemade sex tape, and what that kind of success says about our society. Naturally, IMDb has removed the prose from her page, but screen shots have ensured that the words are able to live on the internet forever:

Kim Kardashian is emblematic of the shallowness of American culture in the first two decades of the new millennium. While some cultural critics call her the prime avatar of the "famous for being famous" faux celebrity crowd, she along with Paris Hilton is a new breed of cat whose celebrity comes from the release of a sex tape and the canny exploitation of the resulting publicity. Like her good friend Miss Hilton (their relationship predates Kim's "celebrity", Kardashian is possessed of photogenic good looks but is short of any other discernible talents outside of the bedroom. Both expanded their celebrity by becoming reality TV "stars".

Hopwood went on to discuss the politics of Kardashian's fame:

In the decadence that is America of the $15-trillion deficit and no serious plans from either party for a solution to the economic problems of the "Great Recession," Kim Kardashian is welcomed to her second White House Correspondents Association Dinner in Washinton, D.C. in 2012 and made fun of not only by host Jimmy Kimmel but by the President of the United States…That the women's fame rests on the February 2007 "leaking" of a four-year-old home sex [tape] (for which she ultimately received $5 million from Vivid Entertainment) is an apt metaphor for socio-economic-cultural malaise in Washington and the country beyond, where everything seems to be run by amoral prostitutes in bed with each other and merely out for a buck.